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640. O: SIR EDWARD NORHEY, AORNEY GENERAL.Whitehall. 30 December 1712. [Contemporary copy in unidentied

hand.] ext: MS, National Archives, London, SP 44/114, ol. 93.

Whitehall 30th Decr 1712M.r Attorney Gen.l

SirTe Ministers o the Czar o Muscovy, o the King o Denmark and o King

Augustus having made complaint o a Paragraph in the Post Boy o the 4 th ins.treecting upon their respective Masters by her Maj: tys Command I send you hereenclosed1 the said Post Boy & desire that you will prosecute the Author o it asar as the Law will allow. I am

SirYour most humble Serv.t

Bolingbroke

1. Post Boy , 2741 (24 December 1712) comments on the nancial mismanagement o

the Northern Conederates in the war against France. Inormations were orderedagainst Abel Roper or his seditious Reections in his Libel the Post-Boy, uponthe sar o Muscovy, the King o Denmark.Flying Post or the Post Master, 3319 (36

January 1713).

641. O: LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF RADE. Whitehall.2 January 1712. [In a secretarys hand but signed by B.] ext: MS,

National Archives, London, CO 388/15, ols 999v.

Whitehal Jan: 2d 1712LdsComm:rs o rade &c

My LordsBy ye Queens command I transmit to your Lordships a Representation1

drawn up by ye Brittish Merchants in Flanders, relating to ye commerce betweenthat Country, Britain, & Ireland; which you will please to consider o, & makesuch observations thereupon as you shall judge proper.2

I am my Lords.yr Lordsps most humble


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2 Te Unpublished Letters o Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 3

and most obedientservantBolingbroke

1. Enclosed:Project [containing twelve articles] or re-establishing Commerce betwixt G.t

Britain, Ireland & Flanders, presented to the R.t Hon:ble my L.d Orrery Plenipotentiaryto Her Matythe Queen o G.t Britain & Ireland, at Brussells by the English Merchants oBruges & Ostend January 1712/13. Signed by J. Hudson, Edmund Custis, And.[rew]Browne, and Tomas Ray. Tis demanded that all English woollen products imported toOstend pay hal the duties currently charged under the tari (or book o rates) o 1680;the projectors also complained that tobacco imported rom England was charged at anexcessively high rate, and asked that this rate be reduced by one hal. Tey also recom-mended that Ostends harbour and quay be put in good condition beore it became

innavigable. Similarly, or the benet o commerce, the projectors suggested that theriver or canal between Ostend and Bruges should be cleared and made as deep as it waseen years beore, and that great regard be shown to English subjects living in thesecountries who depended on reedom o transit to transport their goods to the conqueredBarrier towns. (Contemporary copy in unidentied hand. NA, CO 388/15, ols 1001.)

2. Remainder o letter in B.s hand.

642. O: BENJAMIN WAIDE, MAYOR OF HULL. Whitehall. 2January 1712/13. [Contemporary copy in unidentied hand.] ext:

MS, National Archives, London, SP 44/114, ol. 93.

Whitehall 2 January 1712/13

Mayor o Hull.

S.r

I thank you or your letter o the last o December, which came this day tomy hands & or the dispatch you gave to the Count de Saaros w:chwas very muchto her Majties satisaction.

I heartily joyn with you in wishing that you may soon have an opportunity omaking the Proclamation you desire, & am1

S.r

Yo:r most humble andObed:t ServantBolingbroke

1. See letter 615.


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Letters 30 December 171218 September 1713 3

643. O: SIR WILLIAM WYNDHAM. Whitehall. 2 January1712/13. [Contemporary copy in unidentied hand.] ext: MS,

National Archives, London, SP 44/114, ols 989.

Whitehall 2.d January 1712/13Secretary at Warr.

S.r

Upon my laying some time ago beore the Queen a Report rom the thenSecretary at Warr on the Petition o Cap.t Matthews whereo I enclose a Copy,1her Ma.tyin consideration o this Gentlemans services, and o the hardships hehas sufered, was pleasd to approve o his being placd on the Establishment ohal pay in Ireland, til he could be provided or according to his Rank in theArmy as is proposd in the aoresaid Report. And I was accordingly directed tospeak to the Duke o Ormonde upon it, but His Grace going or Flanders beoreI had an Opportunity o mentioning this matter to him, it is still in suspence.

You will thereore please to acquaint the Duke o Ormonde with Her Maj.tys

intentions concerning Cap.t Matthews, and to take the proper measures or pro-curing to him the ull benet o them. I am

S.r

Your Obed.t humble servantBolingbroke.

1. Enclosed: Report, signed by George Granville, and dated Whitehall, 19 Septem-ber 1711. Tis regards Captain William Matthews, late o Major-General Peppersregiment o dragoons, with twenty years o service. Being the eldest Captain in theregiment, he was taken prisoner at Elche (the petition does not indicate when) inSpain and carried into France. Te majors post alling vacant whilst he was prisoner,the Earl o Gallway appointed a younger captain-major instead o Matthews. Granvillerecommended Matthews to the Duke o Argyle and the Earl o Portmore asking themto restore him to the post o major o dragoons as soon as a vacancy became available.NA, SP 44/114, ols 99101.


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644. O: LORDS PLENIPOENIARIES: JOHN ROBINSON,BISHOP OF BRISOL, and HOMAS WENWORH, 1st

EARL o SRAFFORD and 3rd BARON RABY.Whitehall. 3 January 1712/13. [In a secretarys hand but signed by B.]

ext: MS, BL Add. 37273, ols 19v.1

Whitehall 3.d Janry 1712/3R. H. Lds plenipot.

My Lords

I have now beore me your Lo:ps

letters o the 27th

& 30th

December, and othe 3d and 6th o January N. S. which I am to acknowledge.Your Lo:ps letter o the 30th o Dec:r gives an account o several points which

were discussed in a Conerence with the French Ministers relating to the reaty oPeace, and that o Commerce.2 As I nd by your letter o the 6th o Janry that yourLo:ps had received mine o the 20th Decr, and as I doubt not but my letter o the24th will have come to your hands since, I shall be very short in my observationsupon those particulars, because the diferences mentioned, are either answerd inthose two letters, or suspended till we hear rom the Duke o Shrewsbury whatsuccess he has met with in his Negociations upon the most essential matters. As tothe French selling their immovable Estates in all the places which they quit, yourLo.ps think it most unreasonable in respect to Hudsons Bay,3 but seem to have noobjection as to other places except as to to the time to be allowed or selling them.You have her Matys sense amply expressed in my letter o the 20th Dec:r concerningthe absurdity o this pretension; and i the French talk o positive orders to insistupon it, your Lo:ps are as positively to reject it. By the additions in the 10th Article,4I hope your Lo:ps mean the generall clause o a reciprocal redress o grievances,

which was added by the French to the rst project. or as to the additions in theirCounter-project, her Maty thinks they enter too much into particulars.

5Exceptis Formentis &c in the 12th Art[icle] your Lo:ps say you have admittedagreably to ormer directions. what I remember to have writ most distinctly uponthat matter was contained in my letter o the 26tho Augt,6 the meaning o which was tomake use o that demand to acilitate other matters; & to be easy on condition that

the French showed the same spirit. As to the season o shing to be prescribed tothe French on the Coast o Newoundland,7 I nd by letters which I lately receivedrom Mr Pryor that the Court o France is uneasy at such a restriction, & makesseveral objections to it.8 your Lops will have seen that her Maty has no thoughts oinsisting upon that matter. But we are hopeull that the Duke o Shrewsbury acordingto his Instructions will be able to give quite a new turn to the most material pointo our diferences, which will set aside all these other little di cultys.


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9Your Lo:ps took a very right turn in respect to the Barrier o the Duke oSavoy, when the French or his security ofered never to quarter any roops inthe valleys on the side towards Exilles and Fenestrelles. or by that concessionFrance does really acknowledge the necessity o the Barrier which his RoyalHighness asks, & the danger he is exposed to without it. I am hopeull still thatthe French, notwithstanding all their backwardness, will yield this point at last.at least we must insist upon it to the utmost.

10Te alarms concerning Sicily which your Lops mention in several o yourletters, may be industriously given by the French or the purposes which youobserve. however her Maty has or the present thought t to give some orders

towards preventing the dangers apprehended, as your Lo:ps

will see by the Copyo the Earl o Dartmouths letter to Sr John Jennings,11 which I send inclosed.you will please to communicate to the Ministers o Savoy the directions whichthe Queen sends to her Admiral. And i there are any more particular Inorma-tions concerning designs upon that Island, by transporting o roops, raisingseditions, or any other way to disturb the possession intended or the Duke oSavoy; or i your Lops have any proposals suggested to you o what else may be

proper or her Majty to do in order to rustrate such attempts, you will pleaseto apprize me o what comes to your knowledge that I may receive the QueensCommands upon the whole.

12As to the Elector o Bavaria, i the French think his case hard; the Imperi-alists, and other her Matys Allys are o opinion that it is too much avoured. and

I doubt there will be great contestations, and very many di cultys still raisedbeore even that which is now designd or him, can be obtained. Upon this Imust observe to your Lo:ps that it little becomes the French to complain o whatis asked or the Duke o Savoy, & to term a Barrier, which they seem to ownto be necessary, une demande ofenante;13 when at the same time they makesuch pretensions in behal o the Elector o Bavaria, and are complaining thatenough is not done or him.

14I nd that Mr Watkins, who is Commissioned by her Maty to inspect theaccounts relating to oreign roops, has already examined the demands o theCountry o Liege or Forrage urnished to the Prussians in her Ma tys pay, andhas settled them as arr as relates to him. I shall put the papers given your Lops bythe Resident o Liege into the Secretary at Warr Sr William Wyndhams hands,

who is the proper O cer to receive her Matys Orders, and give an answer uponthose matters.

Her Maty approves o the answer, mentioned in your letter o ye 3d Janry,15which your Lops gave to the plenipotentiarys o the States, when they pressedyou to enter immediately into a discussion o matters, alth they had laid thembeore the Queen & desired new Instructions to be sent to you. Her Ma ty thinks

your Lops conduct in this whole afair has been very right, and that the Dutch


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Ministers had no ground or the surprize which they showed on this occasion.Monsr van Borsele had an audience o the Queen on tuesday the 30th o Decr, and

presented to her Matythe letter rom his Masters the States General. on thursdayhe had a Conerence with the Lords o the Committee at the Cockpit, and com-municated to their Lops the Remarks made in Holland on the Project o a reatyo Succession & Barrier,16 and on the propositions relating to peace made at theHague by the Earl o Straford. the Letter rom the States to her Maty will verysoon be answerd. an answer will likewise be returned to the Remarks, which,by the best that I can judge o her Matys intentions, will be a very short one. Idont see in the Overtures o the States, which I have received rom Monr Van

Borsele, that there is much relating to France. they seem calculated to take morerom their allys, than rom their Enemys. however I shall not ail to instructthe D.[uke] o Shrewsbury o the whole, when the Queen shall have taken herResolution upon them.

17I am not instructed to speak particularly upon the Interests o Portugal.I am however hopeull that means will be at last ound to settle them in a verygood manner. But whatever Bargain is made or them Spain must be a party toit; and thereore the admitting o the Spanish Ministers18 to the Congress mustbe a preliminary step to the doing any thing at all upon this subject.

As to the Representation o the Ministers o the associated Circles, 19 th Icannot observe any thing disrespectull, yet there are some insinuations in it thathave an invidious air. however I believe your Lo:ps would have had orders to give

an answer in orm to it, & that a very kind one too. but the Queen nding it tobe printed in the Dutch news-papers, and a actious use to be made o that here,her Maty does not think t to direct any particular notice to be taken rom hero this Representation. your Lops may rom your selves however very truly and

very justly say, that there is nothing which the Queen could have more heartilydesired, then to have been able to have done more or them. but they are tooreasonable to imagine that aer so long an opposition to the Queens measuresby all her allys, and aer the advantages which France in consequence o this hasgained, her Maty should remain able to do all that She could wish to do, or allthat ormerly perhaps She was in a condition to do.

20I have writ to my Lord reasurer to put him in mind o paying the 200 llas her Matys Bounty to Mor Behrendorf. I believe nothing but his Lo:ps Indis-

position, which does not permit him to go abroad, or to do business, can havehindered it. and I suppose the money will very soon be remitted.

21We never had any knowledge here o an accord supposed to have beenmade among the allys or the Repartition o prisoners taken rom the Frenchduring this Warr. neither can I nd by M r Cardonnel, who was Secretary to theDuke o Marlborough when he had the sole direction o those afaires, that there

were ever any steps made in that matter. the Queen wishes she could make it easy


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to the French, who must own themselves that it is not in her power. all that layin her to do in regard to prisoners She has already done; and her Maty hopes thatthe prospect o peace is now so near, that it is less necessary to press this point.

22As to the Representations in behal o the protestants in the Empire, Silesiaand Hungary I believe your Lops ormer orders will carry you to exert her Ma tysauthority, and to use her name in all that is required by those papers. and yourLops may be assured that you can not do a more acceptable service to the Queen,than in supporting the Interest o the protestants to the utmost o your poweron all occasions.

23I must not let slip those paragraphs in your Lo:ps letter o the 27th o Decr

which relate to King Augustus, and the afairs in the North. I enclose to yourLo:ps a Copy o that Princes24 letter to the Queen; and th it is indeed uller, asMr. Scott observes, than the answer given to his Memorial, yet I doubt your Lo:ps

will nd it neither so ull, nor so clear as the case requires, and has [sic] her MatysInterposition deserves.

Te late turn o afairs25 puts King Augustus into such a condition, as will bein all probability irretrievable without the hearty and united Eforts o all his prot-estant riends, and particularly o the Queen. this consideration may perhapsquicken the return o the Prince Electoral, and the misortunes o the Fathermay prove the salvation o the son according to the wise and secret dispositionso providence.

Te Queens good o ces are, and have been at all times ready to compose

the troubles in the North; and since in this conjuncture they are likely to beaccepted, your Lo:ps will do well again to ofer them to all the partys concerned. Iconess I much doubt whether they can be yet a while employed efectually sincethe King o Sweden hitherto insists on a preliminary which the Queen cannotthink in her present circumstances o making good to him, I mean the ull efecto the reatys o ravendahl and Alt-Randstadt; and I hardly believe the North-ern Allys are brought low enough by the victory o the Swedes and the Ruptureo the urks to submit to such terms, and at once to renounce all those atteringhopes which they have so long indulged.

26I must beore I conclude say something to your Lo:ps upon that part o yourLetter o the 6th which relates to the Evacuation o Catalonia, and to the newturn which the Councills o the Emperor seem to take. Monr Hofman27 had

entertained me yesterday upon this head, and by urner28 the Messenger, whoarrived a ew hours ago I received your Lops dispatch o the 10th, part whereorelates to the same subject. Aer I shall have reported on monday to her Maty inCouncill the propositions which the Imperial Resident has made I shall be ableto send your Lo:ps very ample Instructions not only as to the Evacuation o Cata-lonia, but likewise as to the other points which the Imperialists press. at presentI can only say that the Duke o Argylls return does indeed create a very great di-


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culty;29 but that I believe the very odd answer which the Marshall Starembergthought t to give to his Grace, when he rst made the proposition in pursu-ance o his Instructions o evacuating Catalonia, was the principle motive whichinduced the Duke to hasten home. Means will I hope be ound by instructingSr John Jennings, or some other way to overcome the di culty. but surely therst step must be settling that Convention, which your Lops have indeed on your

parts very rightly promoted, and which I am somewhat surprized to hear theFrench Ministers are not instructed about. I take it or granted the reason o thismust be that the Court o France imagined the whole would have been adjustedin Spain. As to the ransport I am araid her Ma tys Engagements both by reaty

and by verbal promises do amount to what the Imperial Ministers say.30

As tothe general Amnesty and Restitution o honour and Estates the Spaniards willcertainly not agree to it, unless it be reciprocal, neither has the Emperor on anyother oot a pretence to demand it. to acilitate the Evacuation the Amnesty orthe Catalans would I believe be granted even now.31

In a Negociation o so great length, so wide an Extent, and so much perplex-ity, it is not to be wondered at i mistakes sometimes happen, and propositionsare sometimes misunderstood. or my own part I am particularly unknowing inmatters o rade,32 and may thereore not only have ill comprehended your Lo:pssense, but perhaps ill explained her Matys, or which I hope to be excused. yourLo:ps last letter sets the great point in dispute in so clear a light that I think it isimpossible or me to err, and I coness reely to your Lo:ps I had not the same

Idea o it beore.33 as my next dispatch will probably be none o the shortest, tishigh time to give yr Lordsps some rest, by concluding this with my most sincereassurances that I am

My Lords yr Lordsps most aithul and most humble servantBolingbroke34

35P. S.Since my writing this letter I have lookd over the last dispatch which I

received rom Mr Pryor, wherein I nd a paper given him by Monr de orcyrelating to the Articles o Commerce, o which I send your Lo:ps a Copy. It is

plain by this that the French aim at reducing the Dutys payable in England toa proportion with the ari o 1664, as I took their design to be in my letter o

the 24th Decr;and I am still araid that the turn your Lo:ps give it in your lettero the 10th o Janry is not the real meaning o France, and thereore it ought to beexplained so clearly as not to admit o any arther di culty.36

Bolingbroke

Endorsement(in ?Robinsons hand): Lord Bolinbroke/Janry 3. 1712/13.37

1. A contemporary copy o this letter is preserved in BL Add. 22206, ols 817.


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2. See a letter rom the Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., dated Utrecht, 30 December n.s.1712, or discussion o the remaining diferences in the projects o peace and commerceollowing a conerence on 29th n.s. between the French and British Plenipotentiaries.NA, SP 84/244, ols 6404. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206in unidentied hand: reaty o Peace & Commerce.

3. Te French Plenipotentiaries reused to change the words cedendis and restituendisin Article 9 o the project o a reaty o Peace, and insisted that French subjects shouldbe permitted to sell their immovable property in all places given up by France. With somuch at stake in the negotiations, the British and French were sometimes over-cautious:stif because in the dark, neither side knowing whether the subject o our dispute be ogreat or little or any importance at all. Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 30 Decem-ber n.s. 1712. NA, SP 84/244, ol. 641. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL

Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: French not to sell their immovables in the places tobe yeilded.

4. Te Lords Plenipotentiaries agreed to let stand French additions to Article 10 o theproject o a reaty o Peace. Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 30 December n.s.1712. NA, SP 84/244, ol. 641. MS note written in unidentied hand beside this passagein copy BL Add. 22206: 10 Article o the reaty o peace.

5. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: 12Article.

6. Letter 548.7. MS note written beside this passage in BL Add. 22206 in same hand as body o letter:

French shing on Newoundland.8. Prior to B., Versailles, 17/28 December 1712, enclosing several documents and letters

including a proposal by orcy demanding the preservation o French shing rights on

Newoundland. On 8/19 January 1713, Prior sent B. a Memoir by orcy, dated 14 and17 January n.s. 1713, concerning Newoundland.B. Corres., vol. 3, pp. 2389; 2978.9. In conerence with Robinson and Straford, the French reused to yield to the Duke

o Savoy the valleys near Exilles and Fenestrelles, and merely ofered not to quartertroops there. However, the Lords Plenipotentiaries, who were committed to uphold-ing the Dukes interests, insisted that France cede these places to Victor Amadeus. NA,SP 84/244, ol. 642v. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 inunidentied hand: Barriere o Savoy. See Mellardes Memorial concerning the Dukeo Savoys Barrier. n.p. 19 December 1712. Dpartment Des Afaires trangres, Paris.Correspondence Politique. I. Angletterre. Vol. 240 (Supplment), ols 26971v.

10. Te French claimed that the Sicilians were opposed to Victor Amadeus, and that theSpanish troops employed there would be unwilling to keep the peace. However, Robin-son and Straford suspected this was only urgd as an argument or dispatching our workhere. Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 30 December n.s. 1712. NA, SP 84/244,

ol. 642v. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentiedhand: Sicily.

11. Tis may reer to a letter rom Dartmouth to Sir John Jennings, dated Whitehall, 19July 1712, which concerns the suspension o arms by sea, and contains orders or notattacking a French Levant eet o corn ships. New York Public Library, Manuscripts andArchives Division. Montague Collection o Historical Autographs, Box 10. Unoliated.

12. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: Elec-tor o Bavaria. Te French protested, on behal o Max Emanuel, that i the Dutch


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garrisoned Luxemburg, Namur and Charleroi, and i the Emperor reused to makepeace, the Elector would be le in exile. SP 84/244, ol. 643.

13. MS note written beside this passage in B.s hand: I think they deserve to be told que cestun reus ofencant.

14. Te Resident o Liege handed the Lords Plenipotentiaries a paper or B. concerning thepayment o arrears. Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 30 December n.s. 1712. NA,SP 84/244, ol. 643v. Henry Watkins was agent or James Brydges, Paymaster-Generalo the British orces. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 inunidentied hand: Liege.

15. MS note written beside this passage in B.s hand: Te Dutch. At a conerence betweenthe British and Dutch Plenipotentiaries on 31 December n .s., the Dutch Plenipotentiar-ies delivered a copy o a letter rom the States-General to Queen Anne, dated 30 n.s.,

together with remarks upon the reaty o Barrier and Succession. When pressed by theDutch plenipotentiaries to enter immediately into discussion o the Barrier reaty, theBritish declined: i they had made direct application to us, we should have been underno di culty to act according to our Instructions; and as they could not but remem-ber, the Earl o Straford told them at the Hague, the Proposals we made there were herMajestys ultimate, our work would accordingly have been pretty short. But they havinglaid thewhole beore ... [the Queen], & prayed that new Instructions may be sent us, wethought it our Duty to wait the return. Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 3 Januaryn.s. 1713. NA, SP 84/246, ols 11v.

16. On 3 January n.s. 1713, the Dutch inormed Robinson and Straford they had powersto sign the Barrier reaty as soon as they had received the Queens reply to their letter .Coombs, Conduct, p. 336; or the States-Generals letter to the Queen, delivered by Bors-sele, see Coombs, p. 366.

17. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: Por-tugal. Te Portuguese ministers at Utrecht gave Robinson and Straford a copy o aletter rom the King o Portugal to Queen Anne, dated 6 December n.s. 1712, oferingto leave Portuguese interests to the Queens disposal. In order to make their demandsmore acceptable to the Queen, the Portuguese said they were prepared to renounce alltheir interests except in Brazil, Alburquerque, Badajoz, the port o Vigo, and the castleo Guarda. SP 84/246, ol. 2.

18. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: Span-ish Ministers.

19. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: Asso-ciated Circles. Te Lords Plenipotentiaries sent B. a representation rom the our circles,dated Utrecht 30 December n.s. 1712, promoting their interests at the peace talks. When

pressed by the ministers o the Circles, the Lords Plenipotentiaries answered vaguely thatthe Merits o the Circles were well enough known as to render any words o ours need-

less. NA, SP 84/246, ols 3, 57. A copy o Article 8 and 9 o the Accession o the Circleso the Electoral Rhine, Franconia, Suabia and the Upper Rhine to the Grand Alliance o7 September 1701, signed at Nordlingen, 22 March 1702 (ratied by Queen Anne 20

June 1702), was enclosed in a letter rom the Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 3January n.s. 1713. Te Articles are preserved in NA, SP 84/246, ols 910.

20. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand:M.r Berendorf. On 2 January n.s. 1713, Buys showed Robinson an Ordinance o theStates-General ofering to pay the Hungarian agent, Bierensdorf, 1,000 Gilders (then


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approximately 100). Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 3 January n.s. 1713. SP84/246, ol. 3v.

21. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: Noaccord among the allys ab.t prisoners. Tis reers to a letter rom Mr Voisin to the Frenchministers, a copy o which was communicated by the French to Robinson and Straford.It concerned a supposed accord between the allies over prisoners taken by Britain andother countries rom the French during the war. However, the Dutch ministers deniedany such accord existed. NA, SP 84/246, ol. 3v.

22. MS note written in unidentied hand beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206:Protestants in the Empire, Silesia &c. Enclosed with the Lords Plenipotentiaries let-ter to B., Utrecht, 3 January n.s. 1713: (i) a representation in behal o members o thereormed religion in Silesia in pursuance o the reaty o Altranstdt. Tis demanded

equal privileges with the Lutherans, and the reedom to build a church in Breslau. (ii) arepresentation in avour o the Protestants in Hungary. SP 84/246, ols 1113v; 1516.23. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand:

Afaires o the North. In a letter to B., dated 27 December n.s., the Lords Plenipotenti-aries wrote: We have rom M. r Scot the answer he has receivd rom y.e King o Poland tohis memorial, which we should be very sorry or, were it not that M.r Scott tells us thatKings letter to Her Majesty is uller ... [and] more like to give satisaction, & we cannotbut believe the unexpected turn o afairs to his disadvantage both in urky & Pomerania

will convince that King o the necessityHe is under to cultivate & engage ye friendship hewill now so much need. NA, SP 84/244, ol. 633.

24. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand:P:[rince] Saxony. Augustuss letter to Queens Anne, dated Gusrau 16 December n.s.1712, is preserved in NA, SP 88/20. Unoliated. Te same MS contains a response toScotts Memorial, also dated Gusrau 16 December n.s . 1712.

25. On 11 December 1712, urkey renewed its war against Russia.British Mercury, 391(31December 1712).

26. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: afairso Catalonia. On 6 January n.s. 1713, the Imperial Ministers, Sinzendor and MichaelAchaz, Freiherr von Kirchner, visited Robinson and Straford to propose several heads oa Convention about evacuating Catalonia, theransport o the Empress & their roops.Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 6 January n.s. 1713. NA, SP 84/246, ol. 18.

27. Johann Philipp von Hofmann, Imperial Resident in London.28. Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 10 January n.s. 1713, endorsed in another hand

(not B.s): received per [John] urner. NA, SP 44/246, ols 259. urner broke his legwhilst delivering a letter rom B. to the Lords Plenipotentiaries (20 January 1712/13)aer his chaise over-turned. NA, SP 84/246, ol. 95.

29. When Starhemberg applied to the Duke o Argyll about concerting matters relating tothe evacuation o Catalonia, Argyll reused to discuss the matter beore his return to Eng-

land. Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 10 January n.s. 1713. NA, SP 84/246, ol. 27.30. Te Imperial Ministers claimed that Queen Anne had agreed, by reaty, or expressly

promised to pay the cost o transporting the troops both to and rom Catalonia. LordsPlenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 10 January n.s. 1713. NA, SP 84/246, ol. 19.

31. Te Emperor accepted Queen Annes ofer o transporting the Empress and Imperialtroops rom Catalonia, on condition there was a general amnesty in Catalonia and aneutrality in Italy. Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 3 January n.s. 1713. NA, SP84/246, ol. 4. A contemporary extract o this letter, comprising this and the previous


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sentence, is preserved in the Parliamentary Archives, HL/PO/JO/10/6/239/3069,ols 1422v. Tis is endorsed by Robert Harley, Earl o Oxord: reade in ye House/2dAprill 1714 (reerring to extracts o B.s letters to the Lords Plenipotentiaries: 19 Sep-tember 1712; 24 September 1712; 3 January 1712/13; 7 January 1712/13; 13 February1712/13; 25 April 1713).

32. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: rade.33. Remainder o paragraph including signature in B.s hand; the postscript is in the same

hand as the rest o the letter but is signed by B. See Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht,6 January n.s. 1713, enclosing proposals or evacuating Catalonia. NA, SP ols 1723.

34. MS note written beside this passage in an unidentied hand: vertu.35. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: rade.36. Signature in B.s hand. For orcys proposal about the arif o 1664, seeB. Corres., vol. 3,

p. 262; and or the Lords Plenipotentiaries comments on the arif, see their letter to B.,Utrecht, 10 January n.s. 1713, NA, SP 84/246, ols 256.

37. Endorsement(in BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand): Lord Bolingbroke to/the LordsPlenip:ys/3.d Jan:ry 1712/13 O. S. [O.S. inserted in Strafords hand]. A second endorse-ment BL Add. 22206 in Strafords hand: L.ds Plenipos Letters o the 27th & 30th/Dec.r& 3.d & 6th Jan:ry N. S. acknowledgd./ab.[ou]t the Diferences in ye reatys o/Peace &Commerce with France./ab.[ou]t the Barrier o Savoy./ab.[ou]t Sicily./ab.[ou]t the Electoro Bavaria./Monsr. Van Borseles audience o/the Queen &c./the pretentions o Portugal./Tose o the associated Circles./ab.[ou]t Mr Berensdorf./ab.[ou]t the Exchange o Prison-ers./ab.[ou]t ye protestants [sic] in ye Empire &c./Te Prince o Saxonys Religion./afairs othe north./ab.[ou]t the Evacuation o Catalonia/ab.[ou]t Commerce with France.

645. O: LORDS PLENIPOENIARIES: JOHN ROBINSON,BISHOP OF BRISOL, and HOMAS WENWORH, 1stEARL o SRAFFORD and 3rd BARON RABY. Whitehall. 7

January 1712/13. [In a secretarys hand but signed by B.] ext: MS,BL Add. 37273, ols 1132.1

Whitehall the 7th Janry 1712/13R. H. Lds plenipot.

My Lords.I send you herewith the Queens letter to the States General in answer to

theirs o the 29th o December.2 I send your Lo:ps likewise a Copy3 o the Remarks

made by the States on the project o a new reaty o Succession and Barrier &cas they were delivered to me by Monr van Borsele. I have given a Copy o herMatys letter to that Minister; but I have not put into his hands any written answerto the Remarks, the Queen thinking it proper to communicate her sense uponthose matters only to your Lo:ps. Te Flying-Post o the 3d instant, which goesenclosed,4 will let your Lops see that the actious party here had communication,as soon as the Queen, o the Resolution o the States; and in looking over this


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paper you will easily observe the malicious use that they have made o it. Andthereore in the beginning o your Conerence with the Dutch Plenipotentiarys

your Lo:ps are to take notice o it as an Afront and Indignity to the Queen, whichher Maty cannot bear; and in speaking o this proceeding you will please to treatit with the severest terms, and with the utmost Indignation, as by the Queensexpress Command. your Lops will likewise do well to let the States know that ithey renew those methods o appealing to her Ma:tys Subjects, they have nothingto expect rom them but the same ill success, which they had when they tryedthat way beore. I mention this the rather, and dwell the longer upon it, because

we have a good reason to believe that the States are running once more into that

dangerous Error, which has cost them already so dear, o depending upon efortsto be made on our side o the water to disturb the Queens afairs, and that in thisview they will keep us in suspence, as much as in them lyes, in expectation o whatmay be done in parliament to strengthen them by perplexing the reaty. yourLo:ps will be extremely in the right to use your best endeavours to cure them o anysuch expectation, as this may be; and you may give them to understand that herMaty apprehends nothing rom such a conduct in respect to her own service; Sheis only concerned or their Interest on this account. 5Aer this Introduction yourLo:ps may proceed to explain to the Ministers o the States the Queens sense uponthe several Remarks which were made on the project o the reaty, and on what

was represented by you, my Lord Straford, at the Hague relating to the Peace.6As to the Amendment desired in the preamble upon the Clause, quiq[ue],

nisi emendationesaliqu ex quo adhibeantur, jam nunc injuriosi, et proindeex ijs qu hinc olim sequi poterint, commodis, rationibusq subditorum dictsu Regi Majestatis periculum allaturi videantur. Te Queen thinks these

words very much to the purpose, and necessary to be retained; this being oneo the our reasons or making a new reaty o Succession and Barrier; and theomission thereo not only renders the preamble lame, but also gives indirectlya pretence to say that her Maty has departed rom those complaints which Shemade o the ill usage which her Subjects have received, and o the worse treat-ment which they have reason to ear rom the use which the Dutch make o the

places and powers given to them in order to orm their Barrier.7Te words, dictusq[ue] ractatus Articuliq[ue] duo prati rescinduntur

jam, irritiq[ue] declarantur, which are objected to in the rst article appear to us

to be proper words in this case. and the Queen knows not what the States aimat by excepting against a orm o expression which is usual in annulling acts othe like nature; whereore her Maty thinks that the disputing them has made itnecessary that they shoud be insisted upon.

8As to the amendments in the 2d Article, the itle o most Excellent wasused in respect to the Princess Sophia because it is the Parliamentary phrase, andemployed in all the acts, Resolutions, or other proceedings relating to the Suc-


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cession. where thereore the itle o an act o Parliament, or any clause o an actis recited, it will be proper strictly to adhere to the words o the Law. in any other

place the itle o most Serene may be given, which style her Ma:ty uses as well tothe Princess Sophia, as to the Elector o Hanover.

Te amendment made by the States o adding the words ex Ill natorum aerHredum Majestatis su Regi in the clause beginning at - sin autem conti[n]-gerit &c9 would have been unnecessary, i it had not been or an omission in theranscript o the project sent to them; but it is to be observed that this amendment

was equally necessary in places not taken notice o in the Remarks o the States,as in those that were. and it is a little odd that they should not think o adding

those words as well in the case o mentioning the Heirs o the Princess Sophia, asin that o the Heirs o the Queen. your Lo:ps will see in the English Draught putinto the hands o you, my Lord Straford, that wherever mention is made o theHeirs either o the Queen or o the Princess Sophia in this article, o her Body, isadded, which I nd our Lawyers usually express by their Latin phrase de corporesuo; which words may thereore be inserted where they have been omitted.

Te amendment o adding prdictas [aoresaid] to Leges [laws] is unneces-sary, and in some sort improper; since as there have been several Laws alreadymade relating to the Protestant Succession, so probably there may be others here-aer. and th the reaty can only reerr to such Laws, as now exist; yet the clause oGuaranty should have relation in general to all which have been, or may be made.

Te amendment o adding the words ex Ill natis aer the words HredibusEjus, is answered by what was said beore.

Te amendment o adding the words nunc determinatam, aer the wordsDevolutionem, Limitationem, Hreditatemve Coron ejusdem Regi,10 is oa very extraordinary nature. the Law says that no person has any Right to ques-tion or oppose any provision made by the parliament o Great Britain touchingthe Descent, Limitation and Inheritance o the Imperial Crown thereo; and itis made High reason to contradict this position. now the amendment o theStates either means nothing at all, or does in the recital o this very Law contra-dict it. or to assert that Inheritance o the Crown to be now determined, whichno power or person hath any Right to question or oppose, implyes very stronglythat any power or person might question or oppose any uture provision o par-

liament touching the Descent, Limitation, and Inheritance o the Crown, whichin a Subject o the Queens is, according to what is abovesaid high reason. yourLops may observe the invidious afectation o the States in their Remarks onthis Article, and you would do well to let them know how much the Queen isobliged to them or assisting her in explaining the Laws o Great Britain. but herMaty having ordered the Omission in the ranscript to be rectiyed, does notthink t to admit o the other amendments o the States.


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I am to take notice to your Lo:ps o two small alterations which should havebeen made in the Latin ranscript, as being more conormable to the originallEnglish Draught. in the beginning o this Article, the disjunctive particle vel inthe period et deciente prole ex Regina vel Rege supramemoratis oriund,11 is notagreable to the true meaning o the Law, as implying that aer the Heirs either othe Queen or o the late King, the Princess Sophia should succeed. whereas it isto be taken in the conjunctive sence, aer the Heirs both o the Queen, and o thelate King. your Lops will nd in the English Draught that the word and is used, andi in the Latin Copy atq[ue] etiam were put in the room o vel, 12 the expression

would be more proper in this case, & conormable to the intent o the Act.

owards the end o the Article in the clause sin autem contigerit &c i aerthe words Bello aperto vel Conspiratione the word proditori13 were inserted itwould more exactly answer the terms o the Law; in the English your Lo:ps willsee it is, raiterous Conspiracy. But i the Dutch should think that we have any

particular aim in this, you will please to treat it as an amendment very indiferent.14Upon the Amendments to the 4th Article your Lops may observe, Tat as to

Cond, the Queen is not, as She expresses her sel in her letter to the States, ina condition to insist on the same things or them now, as She was in the begin-ning o the last year. and it may be added, that neither are they verywell entitledto expect the same advantages rom France, and the same assistances rom herMaty, aer doing all that was in their power to orce the Negociation out o theirhands, and to break thr all the measures taken to promote a peace; aer having

put all the partys concerned in the warr to that Expence o Blood and reasure,which the last Campain has cost; and aer having thrown away that Superior-ity in the eld by separating rom the Queen, which they maintained as longas they continued united with her, as they might have expected had they romthe rst complyed with her Matys desires, and their own Interest. you my LordStraford was instructed to call upon them or the last time, to give them noticethat the Queen could keep her reaty no longer open, and to inorm them notso much what preliminarys they might have to negociate upon, as what seemedto be the 15ultimate Resolution their delays had encouraged France to take. thesubstance o this answer, which is applyed to the demand o Cond,16 may like-

wise be applyed, as I shall observe on the 2d part o these Remarks, to the caseo his Imperial Maty, o the our Circles, and others, with this addition, Tat her

Maty, as She long ago declared in her speech to parliament, does not take uponher to determine the Interests o her Allys; that the Congress still subsists; thatthey may treat or themselves; and that the best o ces, which they have le it inher Matys power to employ, will still be used or them.

17As to the leaving out Dendermonde, your Lops will observe that there isa great diference between the inuence which that place has, and which theCastle o Gand has with respect to the Navigation o the River. or, as your Lo:ps


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will have seen in the marginal observations on this article in the project, theSchelde not passing under the Castle o Gand, the Commerce thr that ownseems not to be so immediately commanded by the garrison in the Castle; ButDendermonde lying upon the River, which runs thr several o the works, ren-ders the rade o it very insecure and precarious whenever the possessors o thatown shall think t to interrupt the passage. this distinction, however slight atthe bottom it may appear, whenever there is any danger o our Commerce beingobstructed, the Queen has laid hold o out o her good disposition to gratiy theStates in respect to the Castle o Gand, and wherever there was the least colouror it, her Matyhas readily taken the advantage in their avour. Upon the demand

o putting a Dutch Garrison into Fort St

Mary18

in case the point o Dender-monde is not yielded; your Lops may take notice how insincere the States are intheir pretences, and how much more they aim at blocking up the great owns,and interrupting the rade o the Netherlands, than barely at keeping a com-munication with their Barrier. Dendermonde indeed by its situation appears tobe proper enough to keep the Communication they pretend to want. but FortSt Mary which lyes below Antwerp cannot be very useull or that purpose, butseems rather intended to be a bridle to that city, and to strengthen their com-mand over the commerce o the Schelde.

Upon the amendment made in the rst part o the 5th Article it was observedthat the addition o the words vel etiam provinci Hispano Belgic,19 as itseems not lyable to objection, so neither is it o any necessity: In the 3 d Article

it is provided non solum ut Provinci Hispano Belgic, verum Urbes, &c r-mando Ordinum Generalium Repagulo sive Barriere inserviant.20 I thereorethese Countrys are made in general, as they will be by this reaty, the Barriero the States, to attack them will be to attack the States. Te words vel ejusadhrentibus,21 will leave the Restriction too general, and will give the Statesan opportunity, which is what her Maty would avoid, to take possession o these

provinces whenever they please, and to make use o them against whomsoeverthey please. the words, aperte potuerit Galliam Ipsos aggressuram esse,22 areexpressive enough to answer the cases which they suppose; or let France attackthem under what borrowed names, and thr what articial canals she pleases,i France appears really to be at the bottom o the design, the States will eas-ily apply these words aperte potuerit to secure themselves, and use the Right o

doing what this Article empowers them to do.23Conventum ver cum sit quod provinciarum Hispano Belgicarum pro-

prium et supremum Dominium ad Csaream suam Majestatem pertineat &c inthe beginning o the 9th Article, is a supposition very proper, and a common ormused in reaty, th the matter spoke o has not been antecedently settled to themaking o the reaty. the Sovereignty o these Countrys, which are taken romFrance, can go to no one so properly, as to the Emperor, and her Maty does not


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care to leave the matter indenite. the Queen indeed is at a loss to nd by whatitle the States pretend to have more to do in the disposal o this Sovereignty,than her sel; or how they come to be better entitled than She is to ask an Equiva-lent or the Cession o it. It is observable that this proceeding o laying a claim tothe sovereignty o the places to be yielded by France, which were not in the pos-session o King Charles the 2d at the time o his death, or at least to the disposalo it, as i it were their own, is not o a piece with the requent proessions madeby the States that they seek not Dominion, that they only ask security. the Dec-larations they made in their letter to her Ma ty o the 19th o Feb: last 1712 (quenous navons jamais eu la pense, ni ne lavons pas encore de nous rendre maitres

des pais Bas Espagnols en tout ou en partie;) and those they have newly madein their last (nous navons en vee pour notre Etat que la Conservation de nosDroits et notre Seuret, et point dautre augmentation ou aggrandissement queceluy qui nous est necessaire pour cette conservation et seuret)24 seem here noteasily reconcileable with their pretending to dispute a part o the Right o Sover-eignty with the Emperor, & not to yield it but conditionally.

Te remaining Remarks upon this Article are o such a nature, as make itimpossible or her Maty, and i it were possible, unjust to agree with the Statesupon them without the participation o the prince to whom these Countrys areto belong. Besides which it would be a work o greater time than can now bespared to make the several distinctions and appropriations o the Revenues andother matters therein mentioned. the general words are su cient; the Detail o

these and other points must be settled by virtue o a subsequent Conventionbeore the Emperor can be admitted into possession. and thereore as on the onehand the States run no danger, so on the other it is not reasonable that theyshould tye the Queen down to so blind a Bargain.

25As to the amendment upon the 12th Article her Matysees no objection to thementioning the rade o the States General, as well as that o her own Subjects.It was only le out because they had not inserted it themselves as a condition ordelivering up the Spanish Low-Countrys to the Emperor, in the Article o therst reaty which answers to this, and because there is much less need o a provi-sion to secure their rade than to secure ours. But your Lo:ps will observe thatthe Clause Donec Commercia utilitatesq[ue] Subditorum Magn Britanni etUnitarum Belgij Provinciarum ad mentem Regi Su Majestatis et Dominorum

Ordinum Generalium accommodat uerint,26 is perplexed, and may run us intoan absurdity by making the States a party to the settling o our Commerce totheir satisaction as well as the Queens, and so on the contrary her Maty wouldhave the clauses separate Donec Commercia utilitatesq[ue] Subditorum MagnBritanni ad mentem Regi su Majestatis, itidemq[ue] Commercia atq[ue]utilitates subditorum Unitarum Belgij Provinciarum ad mentem DominorumOrdinum Generalium accommodat uerint.27


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Te term o 15 days or the meeting o the Commissarys may be prolonged,by making it Ratihabitione hujus ractatus instead o subscriptione, 34 which

will give time enough. or all unnecessary delays are to be avoided upon thishead, because there can be no settlement o the government o these provinces,neither can her Matys roops evacuate Gand and Bruges untill the work be con-cluded, which these Commissarys are to meet upon.

35Te Amendments to the 14th Article are already answered in the observa-tions on the amendments to the 2d.

36Upon the 15th Article the Queen sees no need either o limiting the time, oro speciying any particular Invitation.

What is proposed by the States or making good the Repayment o the Summsborrowed on the Revenues o the en Provinces or the service o the War, seemsreasonable; and her Maty will no doubt joyn with the States in obtaining theConrmations necessary o the Emperor. But they themselves give a reason intheir own Remarks why the Queens guaranty is unnecessary in this case; andthat is, that She her sel is a party to all these agreements.

37As to the upper quarter o Guelder, it is to be observed, 1 st that the reatyby which they claim their Right to it, gives them that Right on condition o anEquivalent only. 2ly that the Equivalent which the States now propose, is reallynone o their own to give; and 3dly that the argument drawn rom the necessityo a communication is ull as strong, i not stronger against them than or them.or it is certain that they have hitherto maintained their communication with

Mastricht, th Venlo, Ruremonde, and the places on the Maes were not in theirhands. And it is as certain that i they were put into their hands all Communica-tion would be thereby cut of between the Empire and the en Provinces; andthe latter absolutely and without interruption would be invested by the powerand possessions o the Seven.38 the Queen is thereore desirous to have this Arti-cle amicably adjusted with his Imperial Maty and the Empire; and She attersher sel that the States Generall will not nd ault that She shows this regard tothem, to whose Representations, and to whose Interests their High Mightinesseshave in the course o this year paid so much respect.

39As to Bonn the Queen thinks there is not the least colour or insisting onit. and as to Keyserswaert their demand is new./

In relation to the 2d part o the Remarks o the States, which are on what

you, my Lord Straford, represented at your return to Holland concerning thepeace;40 what is mentioned about Cond, is already answered by what has beensaid on the amendments to the 4th Article.

Te Expression o estant propos par le Comte de Straford &c 41 is to betaken notice o as not right nor proper. or they were the propositions o France

which the Queen communicated to the States, but did not make her sel; andthereore She would not have it mistaken, as i they were o her dictating. As to


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Luxemburg there have been some thoughts o giving it to the Duke o Lorrain asan Equivalent or the Monterrat, which he so justly demands, and which has beenso solemnly promised him. I he be put in possession, it will be necessary in thatcase to take care o garrisoning the own, and not leave so important a place to so

weak a prince as that Duke. the Queen had not determined any thing in her ownmind concerning the disposal o Luxemburg, and She will have no dispute withthe States on this head. her Maty is easy & ready to negociate with the Imperialistsand the Dutch, and to come into such Expedients as may be proper, which waysoever this afair turns, whether it be given to the Duke o Lorrain as an Equiva-lent, or le to the Emperor.

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As to the our Species which France pretends to except in granting theari o 1664, it is a point in which the Queen is concerned as well as the Statesaccording to their own Remarks. thereore there is no doubt to be made but thatshe has done all that she could do to get these Exceptions dispensed with. But Ibelieve at last her Maty would not think that she made an ill Bargain, i the ario 1664 were efectually granted both to her and to the States, and some Expedi-ent were ound as to the our Species; such as this perhaps, the reerring themto Commissioners43 to compromise the diference between France on one side,and the Queen and the States on the other. your Lo:ps will please to observe thatI say at last, because her Matys opinion is that this matter should, i possible, bedetermined in the reaty, and nothing le to Commissioners.

44In relation to the Principality o Orange, and what belongs to the Succes-

sion o the late King William within the erritorys o France, the Queen doesnot understand that there is any dispute with the French Court about that mat-ter, but looks upon it as a point yielded. her Maty thinks what the States propose

just, o having that Succession put into their hands as Executors o the late Kingto be disposed o as it shall be agreed, or determined by Law. but as this is anafair which must be discussed with the King o Prussia, the Queen will readilyemploy her good o ces in adjusting it.

45As to the great Debts which the States pretend to be due to them rom theCrown o Spain it is very reasonable they should treat or the payment o them;and when the Spanish Ministers come to the Congress they will have an oppor-tunity o doing it themselves.

46Upon the erms or the allys and the restitution o Strasbourg I have noth-

ing in Commission to say urther than what has been already explained in thecase o Cond, except this which I may add rom my sel, that I remember tohave seen the time when Strasburg might have been obtained. but the Emperor,the Princes o the Empire and the States may thank themselves i that opportu-nity was lost.

47Te particulars mentioned in the last Article o these Remarks about theDuke o Savoy, the Elector o Bavaria &c are matters o Negociation, and the


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Queen is willing in conjunction with the States to take all methods o per-swasion with the Emperor, wishing they may have more efect now, than theyormerly had upon him./

48I must not nish these observations without taking notice o one particularin the Remarks on the 9th Article which had like to have slipd me. the States are

very careull to have a stipulation made in avour o the protestant Religion inthe owns and Countrys to be yielded by France. such a Clause was not indeedinserted by us because we had no notions o any protestants being there, sinceit was a Country that when it belonged to Spain was under the severity o theInquisition, and since it has been so long under the Dominion o France it is not

likely that the Protestant Religion has been able to spread much. But her Maty

is very ready to agree to any Clause or Article that shall be thought proper orpreserving liberty o Conscience, and the exercise o the protestant Religion tothose that make proession o it.

49I think I hardly need say any thing to your Lo:ps concerning the 2d separateArticle, the States being apprized, and your Lops knowing, that the Queen agreesthat it should stand, as it did in the ormer reaty.

I have now gone through these long Remarks, and by what has been saidyour Lops will see that except in one or two instances o no great moment, theQueen does not think t to admit o any amendment proposed by their HighMightinesses to the reaty. so that the only alterations which will be suferedto be made are, a Clause or the preservation o the protestant Religion in the

places & open Country yielded by France, i it shall be thought t or this reaty,rather than or the subsequent Convention to be made with the Emperor; and theinserting a Clause in avour o the rade o the States General as it is mentionedin the observations on the amendments to the 12th Article.50 Tese the Queenagrees to in complyance with the States. Besides the particulars taken notice oin the 2d Article which were only omissions in the ranscript; and in speakingo these last to the Dutch Ministers your Lops will please to acquaint them thatthey were amendments made not upon their Remarks, but upon the omissionsin the Copy. your Lo:ps are to conclude by letting these plenipotentiarys knowthat or the reasons abovementioned the Queen thinks that, i the States aresincerely inclined, as they pretend, to root up and take away all seeds o Divi-

sion, there can be no pretence, no room whatsoever to object to the signing thereaty orthwith, as it now stands. And thereore her Ma ty expects that withoutany urther delay this Bone o Contention should be removed, and the reatyimmediately closed. your Lops will observe to them that this is a surer, as well as amore decent way o prevailing with the Queen to back and assist them in theirdisputes with the Emperor, and with other powers, than by endeavouring to tyeher Maty down by ormal Articles to support them in every usurpation, little


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or great, that they have a mind to make upon the Revenues or privileges o theSpanish Netherlands.

51Since I came thus arr I have had the Flying Post o yesterday brought to me,which I send inclosed. in it your Lo:ps will see that several articles o the projectare printed, with a malicious ranslation added to them. It is certain that theCopy did not come rom me, and it is as certain that it could not be given by

your Lo:ps, and thereore it must have been communicated by the States as other thingshave been beore. Tis is such usage as the Queen can by no means submit to. i projectso solemn reatys under dabate, i papers o the highest consequence unsignedmust be given out to be published in Libels and scandalous news papers, these

proceedings are not to be endured, and we must break of all correspondencewith the Dutch./52Notwithstanding that my dispatch is already run to so excessive a length, yet

I must according to my promise run thr the heads o a Convention or evac-uating Catalonia, which I received in your Lo:ps letter o the 6th. her Maty hasconsidered them, and thinks that or the most part they are very reasonable. Ishall endeavour to be as concise in the Remarks as I can; but your Lops will pleaseto take this along with you, that wherever the Queens sense is delivered uponthese matters, her Maty pretends to determine nothing, She only observes.

Te 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. & 6th Articles her Maty approves.As to the 7th Article which reserves the regulating what is urther necessary

in this business to the Generals and Admirals. Sr John Jennings will have this

Commission on the Queens part, and will be ordered to supply what the Dukeo Argyll should have done, in concerting the Evacuation, in taking care o theransportation o the roops, and in mediating between the two partys in theExecution o this whole afair.53

Te 8th Art[icle] salvis addendis seems unnecessary aer what is said in the7th[.]54

Upon the 9th Article I am to take notice, that as to a particular Amnesty orthe Catalans, and the Security o their Estates and honours it sufers no di culty,the King o Spain having already granted that in complyance with the Queensdesires. But I believe, rom the answer which my Lord Lexington received uponthat head, i the point o privileges is insisted on it will create di culty. Her Matyhowever will certainly endeavour to get or them all that can be got.55

In relation to the 10th,56 11th,57 and 12th58 Articles, which stipulate a generalAmnesty and the conditions o it; It is thought too hasty to pretend to stipulatea general Amnesty here, which seems more proper to be treated o in the general

peace, and i Spain should consent to it in this Convention the Emperor mustthink o making it reciprocal. your Lo:ps will observe that the particular Amnestyor Catalonia, beore any thing reciprocal is granted on the part o the Emperor, isan advantage which we have gained rom Spain. and whatever is deective in that


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may we hope be supplyed when the general one comes to be settled, which as Ihave said must be equal on both sides, and which rom what I nd by the Marquisde Monteleon,59 who is here, will easily be consented to on the part o Spain uponthe Scheme chalked out in this project o a Convention. As to the ax payableby the Grandes mentioned in the 12th Article, i the King owns their itles it isbelieved they must pay it, i not, it will hardly be expected o them.

o the 13th 14th, 15th, and 16th Articles the Queen has no objection; only as tothe latter her Maty observes that it seems more properly to belong to the reatyo peace, than to this Convention.

As to the 17th Art[icle],60 which relates to the Neutrality o Italy, her Ma ty

thinks that is drawn in too general terms. your Lops

will please to consult theMinisters o Italy, and particularly those o the Duke o Savoy how to render itmore ull and distinct.

In the 18th Article her Maty thinks it not improper to add ny aucune autrepuissance ou Estat pendant la continuation de cette Neutralit, aer nis demme lEmpereur.61

As to the charge o the ransportation, I am araid, as I told your Lops in mylast, that the assertion o the Imperialists is too well ounded to be denyed. how-ever we must come of as cheap as we can; and they must not think o throwingthe whole, or any unnecessary Expence upon the Queen, but must make use osuch helps as they have in those parts. What ransports they have or can getrom Naples, or the Islands, and what belong to Catalonia ought to be employed

in this service; and Sr

John Jennings62

will then take care to supply the Remain-der in the best manner he can.your Lops will do well to take notice to the Imperial Ministers, i you have not

done it already, that alth the Queen makes the Neutrality o Italy the conditiono her transporting the Emperors roops rom Catalonia; yet Sr John Jennings

will have always orders to transport the Empress whenever She shall please tocall upon him./

63I must not conclude without saying something more upon that part o yourLops dispatch o the 10th which relates to our reatys in agitation with France.

64It is true, as your Lo:ps observe, that her Maty in May last proposed to havesuch points reerred to Commissioners as could not be settled in the reaty oCommerce. But then She thought that probably She might have been so pressed

in time to conclude, that She could not maturely discuss the particular Inter-ests o her Subjects on the heads o rade. But as the Negociations have sincebeen lengthened She has duely weighed that matter, and intirely agrees with theFrench Kings opinion, as your Lo:ps will see it in the inclosed Extract o Monrde orcys answer o the 10th o June,65 that it is much better to remove all causeo division between the two Nations, & to terminate every dispute on the sub-

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several particulars in Mr Pryors Letters I am more and more conrmed, that theFrench intend by their Com:[missione]rs to reorm intirely our books o Rates,and bring them to an equality with their ari o 1664. 66

67I am very glad to see by the paper inclosed in your Lo:ps letter o the 10ththat the diferences in our reaty o peace are brought to so narrow a compass. 68the principal point, besides that o Cape Breton and the Fishery on Newound-land, seems to be concerning the Clause, Et Bona sua immobilia vendendi.69 Itis wondered why the French are so very stif in that matter upon Accadie, andSt Christophers,70 which we have taken rom them, and are in actual possessiono. the reaty o Breda which they alledge, is a reaty which we look upon here

with shame and regret. but, i I mistake not, we were then Masters o Accadie& Nova Scotia, and the French were not well ounded to pretend that we hadusurped that possession o them, or had deprived any o their Subjects o theirEstates; which makes a principal diference. I did not expect they would appearso easy in respect o Newoundland.71 or th we pretend an ancient Right to allthat Island, yet as to the French Colonys about Placentia I do not know that theQueens subjects ever made any settlements there, that we might complain wereunjustly taken rom them.

72As to the addition in the 20th Article, we thought that those general wordswould have done our business, as being a tacit Repeal o the Clause o the 4 thArticle o the reaty o Ryswick, and at the same time salved well enough the

point o honour in France. I the protestant Ministers will be contented with less

than the Queen has insisted upon her Maty cant help it; but She thinks it properthat your Lo:ps should stick to the additional Clause to the last.73

I am my Lords with muchrespect yr Lordsps mosthumble & obedient servt

Bolingbroke

Endorsement(in ?Robinsons hand): Lord Bolinbroke/Janry 7.th 1712/1374

1. Contemporary copies o this letter are preserved in: BL Add. 22206, ols 93110; andParliamentary Archives, HL/PO/JO/10/6/239/3069, ols 142v3 (extract) this lastextract is endorsed by Robert Harley, Earl o Oxord: reade in ye House/2d Aprill 1714.Harleys endorsement also reers to extracts o seven other letters rom B. to the Lords

Plenipotentiaries written on the same sheet o paper: 19 September 1712; 24 September1712; 3 January 1712/13; 7 January 1712/13; 13 February 1712/13; 25 April 1713.

2. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: Seevol. 3.d, ol. 172 & 174. Queen Annes letter to the States-General, dated St James, 7January 1712/13, is printed in Curtis Brown, pp. 3989.

3. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: TeDutch see vol: 3, ol. 164. Te ollowing documents were enclosed with this letter: (i)States Gen.ll Remarkes on the Project o a New reaty o Succession and Barrier, andupon the propositions relating to Peace made by the Earl o Straford (endorsed: Sent


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rom England in Ld. Bolingbrokes Letter o ye 7th Jan.ry1712/13.) (ii) Remarques sur lesConditions de la Paix contenes dans les Propositions de Mons.r le Comte de Straford(endorsed: sent rom England in L.d Bolingbrokes Letter o the 7th Jan.ry 1712/13.) BLAdd. 22206, ols 11118; 11920v.

4. Enclosure missing. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 inunidentied hand: Flying Post. A text o the Barrier reatyin Latin with English trans-lation was printed in Flying Post or the Post Master, 3319 (36 January 1713).

5. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand:Answer to the Remarks on ye. Project o a new reaty o Succession & Barriere &c.

6. quique, nisi emendationes ... : and which unless some amendments might be airly addedwould now seem injurious and dangerous particularly rom what might ollow to theconvenience and concerns o the subjects o her aoresaid royal Majesty. (Dra clause o

the preamble to the reaty o Guaranty o between Great Britain and the Netherlands -eventually signed at Utrecht, 29, 30 January 1713.) MS note written beside this passagein copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: Preamble.

7. dictusque ractatus ... : and the said treaty, with the two articles beore-mentioned, arehereby rescinded and declared void, in the same manner as i they had never been con-cluded or ratied. (Dra o Article 1 o the new Barrier reaty. ranslation rom Parry,

vol. 27, p. 387.) MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidenti-ed hand: rst article.

8. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in the same hand as body othat letter: 2.d Article.

9. ex Ill natorum: born rom her; Hredum Majestatis su Regi: heirs o her Royal Maj-esty;sin autem contingerit: but i it happened; de corpore suo: rom her body. (Dra oArticle 2 o the new Barrier reaty.)

10. nunc determinatam: now determined; devolutionem, Limitationem ... : devolution, limi-tation, or inheritance o the crown, o the same kingdom. (Dra o Article 2 o the newBarrier reaty.) For the States-Generals observations on Article 2 o the project o thenew Barrier reaty, see BL Add. 22206, ol. 111v.

11. vel: or; et defciente prole ... : and in the absence o ofspring rom the aoresaid queen orking.

12. atq[ue] etiam: and also.13. sin autem contigerit: but i it happened; bello aperto vel Conspiratione: open war or con-

spiracy;proditori: traitorous. (Dra clauses rom Article 2 o the new Barrier reaty.)14. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: 4.th

Article. Cond.15. MS note written beside this passage in another hand: {B}.16. Te French reused to cede Cond to the Dutch.

17. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: Den-dermonde.18. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: Fort

S.t Mary.19. vel etiam ... : or even the Spanish Netherlands.20. non solum ut ... : not only that the provinces o the Spanish Netherlands, but also the

cities, etc might serve as a barrier or deence or the States-General.21. vel ejus ... : or his adhering.22. aperte potuerit... : [i ] it could be openly [seen] that France was going to attack them.


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23. Conventum ver ... : indeed it is agreed that the proper and supreme dominion o theSpanish Netherlands rests with his Imperial Majesty. MS note written beside this passagein copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: 9.th Article.

24. que nous navons jamais ... / nous navons en vee ... : that we have never thought, nor havewe ever taken control o the Spanish Netherlands in part or in their entirety./We wishor our state only the preservation o our rights and our saety, and no other increase orenlargement than that which is necessary to us to preserve this saety.

25. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: 12.thArticle o the 1713 reaty o Barrier.

26. Donec Commercia ... : until the commerce and concerns o the subjects o Great Britainand the United Provinces be adjusted to her Majestys and their High Mightinesses sat-isaction. (Dra o Article 12 o the 1713 Barrier reaty.)

27. Donec Commercia ... : until the commerce and concerns o the subjects o Great Britain beadjusted to her Majestys satisaction, and until the afairs and interests o the subjects othe United Provinces o the Netherlands be regulated according to the intention o theirHigh Mightenesses the States General. (Dra o Article 12 o the 1713 Barrier reaty.)

28. Cterum intra spatium: within the remaining space.29. Carlos II, King o Spain (16611700; r. 1665d.). C. B. to the Lords Plenipotentiaries,

Whitehall, 4 December 1711.B. Corres., vol. 2, pp. 378.30. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: 13

Article.31. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: Te

Schelde &c.32. reaty o Mnster between the Dutch Republic and Spain, signed 30 January 1648.33. Elizabeth I supported the Dutch revolt against Phillip II o Spain in 1567. B.s praised

Queen Elizabeth as a patriot queen in his polemical writings o the 1720s and 30s. See

or example hisRemarks on the History o England(17301).34. Ratihabitione ...: rom the ratication o this treaty; subscriptione: rom the signing.35. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: 14.th

Article.36. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: 15

Article. Tis Article invited all kings and states who wished to come into the treaty to doso provided that such invitations were made jointly by the Dutch and the British.

37. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: upperQuarter o Guelder. A separate article in the Barrier reaty concluded on 29 October1709 stipulated that the States General shall have the entire property and sovereignty othe upper quarter o Guelder. Parry, vol. 26, p. 434.

38. i.e. the Republic o the Seven United Provinces.39. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand:

Bonn[,] Keyserswaert.40. the 2d part o the Remarks. Tis reers to the States-Generals remarks on the conditions

o peace contained in Strafords proposals. BL Add. 22206, ols 11920v. See also Stra-ord to B., Te Hague, 14 December n.s. 1712, enclosing a copy o the register o theresolutions o the States-General, dated 10 December n.s. 1712. NA, SP 84/243, ol.306v.

41. estant propos par ... (rom remarks o the States-General, part 2): qui etant propospar Mon.r le Comte de Straford, que lElecteur de Baviere demeureroit en possessionde Places de Luxembourg, de Namur et de Charleroy, sujettez pourtant aux ermes dela Barriere de lEtat, jusques ce que le dit Electeur sera retabli dans son Electorat de


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Baviere, lexclusion du haut Palatinat, et remis dans le Rang et la Dignit du 9.e Elec-torat. [ranslation: which being proposed by the Earl o Straford, that the Elector oBavaria should remain in possession o Luxembourg, Namur, and Charleroi, subject tothe terms o the Barrier, until the said Elector be restored to his Electorate o Bavaria,excluding the Upper Palatinate, and returned to the rank and dignity o ninth Elector].BL Add. 22206, ol. 119. Max Emanuel was restored to the Upper Palatinate by thereaty o Peace between the Emperor and Spain and France, signed at Baden on 7 Sep-tember 1714. Tis was against the wishes o the Elector o Palatine, who immediatelyordered his minister, Baron Seckingen, to make a protestation against surrendering theUpper Palatinate beore he had received due satisaction in the orm o an equivalent.

London Gazette,5272 (2630 October 1714).42. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: 4

Species.43. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: Com-miss.rs

44. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand:P.[rincipalit]yo Orange.

45. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: Debtspretended rom Spain.

46. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: Stras-burg.

47. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand:D:[uke] o Savoy El:[ector] o Bavaria.

48. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: 9.thArticle o the reaty o Barriere. For the Remarks o the States-General on Article 9, seeBL Add. 22206, ols 11313v; passage reerred to is at, ol. 113v.

49. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: Sepa-rate Art:[icle].

50. Article 12 o the 1713 Barrier reaty, stipulated that the government o the provinces othe Spanish Low Countries would not change until the commerce and concerns o thesubjects o Great Britain be adjusted to her Majestys satisaction, and until the afairsand interests o the subjects o the United Provinces ... be regulated according to theintention o their High Mightinesses the States General. Parry, vol. 27, p. 391.

51. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: Fly-ing Post. Tis may reer toFlying Post or the Post Master, 3307 (69 December 1712),

which contains a synopsis o the plan o peace.52. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: Con-

vention or evacuating Catalonia. See dra proposals or evacuating Catalonia, enclosedin a letter rom the Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., dated Utrecht, 6 January n.s. 1713,

with B.s MS notes. NA, SP 84/246, ols 18, 216. On 14 March 1713, a Convention wassigned by the Emperor, Spain, Great Britain, and France or the evacuation o Cataloniaand or an armistice in Italy.

53. B.s MS note to Article 7 o the dra proposals or evacuating Catalonia: this com. to SrJ:[ohn] Jen:[nings] & he orderd accordingly. NA, SP 84/246, ol. 21v.

54. salvis addendis [rom Article 8 o the dra proposals or evacuating Catalonia]: savingthe things to be added. MS note by B.: seems unnecessary aer ye 7.th. NA, SP 84/246,ol. 22.

55. B.s MS note to Article 9 o the proposals or evacuating Catalonia: all yt can be gotshould be got or them. send ye plenip: ye answer Ld Lex: has recd on this head. they shall


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have pardon and estates not priviledg. NA, SP 84/246, ol. 22. On 3 February n.s. 1713,the Lords Plenipotentiaries wrote that the French and Imperial ministers had reachedagreement on all main points respecting the evacuation o Catalonia and the suspen-sion o hostilities in Italy, as well as the security o the Italian princes. Te only pointstill unsettled was the Catalans ancient Privileges, this despite Sinzendor s determinedeforts on their behal. NA, SP 84/246, ols 88v9. Te Catalans wanted to saeguard theindependence o a number o representative institutions, which would be lost when thekings writ ran in Catalonia, not as king o Aragon, or as count o Barcelona, but as kingo Castille. Francis,First Peninsula War, p. 369.

56. B.s MS note to Article 10 o the proposals or evacuating Catalonia: this cannot be here,this must be in ye treaty o peace & must be reciprocal. it is an advantage yt we gain tohave ye amnisty o Cat. obtaind previously to ye settlement o ye Gen: Amnisty. Lords

Plenipotentiaries to B., letter dated at Utrecht. NA, SP 84/246, ol. 22.57. B.s MS note to Article 11 o the proposals or evacuating Catalonia: answerd already.

NA, SP 84/246, ol. 22v.58. B.s MS note to Article 12 o the proposals or evacuating Catalonia: ye same[.] i ye K:

owns their itles they must pay i he does not they will not pay. NA, SP 84/246, ol. 22v.59. Don Isidro Casado de Avezedo y Rosales, Marquis de Montelen, Spanish Ambassador

at London and Utrecht.60. B.s MS note to Article 17 o the proposals or evacuating Catalonia: this art: very

gen:[eral] concert with ye Sav:[oyard] Min[ister] how to render it more part:[icular].NA, SP 84/246, ol. 23.

61. ny aucune ... : either any other power or state during the continuation o this neutrality/or even o the Emperor. B.s MS note to Article 18 o the proposals or evacuating Catalo-nia: add ny aucune autre puissance on Etat pendant la continuation de cette Neutralit.

NA, SP 84/246, ol. 23. Tis addition does not appear in the published reaty.62. In March 1713, Jennings escorted Empress Isabella Cristina o Brunswick-Wolenbttelrom Barcelona to Genoa.

63. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: rea-tys with France.

64. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand: Com-miss.rs about Commerce. Te Lords Plenipotentiaries decided to reer the remainingdisputed points in the reaty o Commerce between France and Britain to Commis-sioners because o the nature o the work, and in light o an agreement made between

y.r L.dship & M.r orcy 24 May. by which we ound our selves authorisd to reerr to Com-missioners what we could not prevail with the french to admitt, & in the main, thought

we had not ill succeeded in prevailing with the french to reer no more. Lords Plenipo-tentiaries to B., Utrecht, 10 January n.s. 1713. NA, SP 84/246, ol. 23. Tis passage in thePlenipotentiaries letter is marked with a cross possibly by B.

65. Tis probably reers to orcys letter to B., Marli, 10 June n.s. 1712.B. Corres., vol. 2, pp.35764.

66. Prior ailed to persuade the French to grant Britain the arif o 1664 without excep-tions.Eu.reat, vol. 3, p. 218.

67. MS note written beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied hand:reaty o peace. A paper o diferences between Britain and France over the reaty oPeace, enclosed in a letter rom the Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., Utrecht, 10 January n.s.1713, is preserved in NA, SP 84/246, ols 311v.

68. MS note in the le-hand margin beside this passage: .


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69. Et Bona sua immobilia vendendi: their immovable goods or sale. MS note written inunidentied hand beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206: selling immoveables.Dra o Article 13 in the French Plenipotentiaries paper o diferences over the reatyo Peace and Friendships (Article 14 o the reaty eventually signed on 11 April 1713).Louis XIV accepted this article but reserved the right o reerring it to the Queens judge-ment.Eu.reat, vol. 3, p. 204.

70. MS note written in unidentied hand beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206:Accadia & S.t Christophers. In conerence with Robinson and Straford, the FrenchPlenipotentiaries dropped their demands or the right to sell immovables in HudsonsBay, but were very stif about Nova Scotia and St Christophers, alleging that the libertyreserved to British traders by the reaty o Breda between France and Britain (21/31 July1667) was applicable in both cases. Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., 10 January n.s. 1713

NA, SP 84/246, ol. 28.71. MS note written in unidentied hand beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206: New-oundland. Robinson and Straford believed the French would relinquish their claims toNewoundland. NA, SP 84/246, ol. 28.

72. MS note written in unidentied hand beside this passage in copy BL Add. 22206: 20Article. Te French Plenipotentiaries were very positive it would not be consented to.Lords Plenipotentiaries to B., 10 January n.s. 1713. NA, SP 84/246, ol. 28v; addition isin the French Plenipotentiaries paper o diferences. SP 84/246, ol. 31v.

73. Remainder o letter including signature in B.s hand.74. Endorsement (in copy BL Add. 22206 in unidentied contemporary hand): Lord

Bolingbroke/to the Lords Plenip:ry/7.th Jan:ry 1712/13 O. S. A second endorsement incopy BL Add. 22206 in Strafords hand: Te States Gen: ls Letter to ye Queen/withHer Answer. together with their/Remarks on ye new reaty o Succession/& Barrier &cinclosd./a particular answer to those/Remarks./Complaint o ye Flying Post./ab.t the

Convention or the/Evacuation o Catalonia &c./ab.t the Diferences remaining/in yereatys o Peace & Commerce/with France.

646. O: SIR EDWARD NORHEY, AORNEY GENERAL.Whitehall. 8 January 1712/13. [Contemporary copy in unidentied

hand.] ext: MS, National Archives, London, SP 44/114, ol. 98.

Whitehall 8.th Jan.ry1712/3M:r Attorney Gen.ll.

Sir

I am, by the Queens command, to desire that you will prepare such a draughto a Proclamation as you shall judge proper, to prevent any urther Impressementin pursuance o the Act passd last Sessions o Parliament, or recruiting her Maj.-tys Land Forces and Marines,1 and that you will bring the same to the Councill

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